All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 1148
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Low-cost marine satellite service
SatCom Systems has introduced a marine satellite service that covers North American waters which, it says, offers calling charges as low as $0.99/min.The network uses the TMI MSAT-1 satellite, whose footprint covers the entire North American continent from the North Pole to northern South America. The service area also extends ...
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Navigation and speed log
Debeg Satlog 4124, an integrated satellite navigation and speed log system with combined 24-channel GPS-Glonass positioning, has been introduced by STN Atlas Marine Electronics.Providing simultaneous or separate position and speed calculations via GPS, differential GPS and/or Glonass satellites, the system provides world-wide positional and speed accuracy of 15m and 0.2 ...
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Tanker repaired in India
Cochin Shipyard has completed repairs to the Shipping Corporation of India tanker G S Salaria. The vessel docked on December 21 and sailed on January 25.The repair package, worth approximately Rs50 million($1.15 million), comprised steel renewal, hull blasting and painting and replacing a damaged economiser coil. Control, automation and instrumentation ...
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More tankers for Hyundai
Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) in Korea has been awarded a contract to build four suezmax tankers for Athenian Sea Carriers in Greece.The order also includes an option for four more ships. The first of the newbuildings will be delivered in 2002.Also ordered from Hyundai in recent weeks are a number ...
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High pressure mid-sized unit
The 2510 Plunger Pump introduced by Cat Pumps is rated at 91 litre/min, 138 bar. It is designed for continuous-duty applications such as sewer and pipe cleaning, coolant flushing and multi-gun and nozzle systems. The unit, which, says Cat, weighs less than 198kg, is also available as a custom-designed power ...
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Globe Wireless expands Maritime
Globe Wireless has commissioned a new terrestrial digital node in Darwin, Australia for its Maritime Data Network. The new node increases the network to 17 nodes linked world-wide. The network provides communications to and from ships at sea throughout the world.The 17 digital nodes are all controlled from a network ...
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Fighting engine room fires
Finland`s Marioff Oy says it is gearing up for unprecedented demand for its tailor-made Hi-Fog water mist fire protection system. This follows the highlighting of engine room fires by The Salvage Association as one of the largest single causes of ship casualties, and the recommendations of the IMO`s Maritime Safety ...
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Dockside hydraulic oil filling unit
A dockside filling unit for supplying hydraulic oil to vessels has been developed by Commercial Hydraulics Keelavite (CHV). The unit consists of two 61m hydraulically-powered hose reels on a mobile chassis. The unit`s diesel engine powers a gear pump, which is designed to draw fluid from barrels and pump it ...
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SeaSTAR DGPS trial results
Fugro says that sea trials of its SeaSTAR satellite-based DGPS service aboard the 300,955dwt tanker Irving Galloway achieved savings in time, fuel and steering gear maintenance through more precise positioning during open ocean transits. By using a more stable positioning reference for the ship`s steering system, the company says the ...
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De-watering unit
Marinfloc says its sludge de-watering unit, which has been tested onboard Atlantic Compass and Boheme, reduced the water content of sludge on the vessels by 50 per cent and the company says its process can reduce water in sludge by up to 85 per cent.The Unit can either be used ...
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Design tool for process industries
Ingmar has launched Caretronic, pipe production design and operation scheduling tool for use in continuous process industries. It uses a flexible telescopic system called Scopelink which incorporates a series of connecting straights and universal elbow joints.Scopelink is equipped with electronic positioning sensors which generate the data of the desired pipe ...
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Siemens to sign SSP deal
The Siemens Schottle Consortuim is poised to sign a deal to supply its propulsor to Guangzhou Shipyard International to drive a pair of semi-submersible heavy lift vessels ordered by Cosco. Each of the 18,000 dwt/156m loa vessels will have two SSP5s with a full power rating of 4.7MW (6,390 bhp) ...
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Shipbuilding talks deadlocked
Negotiations over the actions of Korea?s shipbuilders entered into by the EU and the OECD are both deadlocked. Representatives of the EU and the Korean government met in Seoul to discuss what the Europeans see as anti-competitive practices, but the Korean delegation says the low prices in its yards are ...
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Extractor for dangerous gasses
Spitznas, the manufacturer of air-driven tools and equipment, has launched an electrically operated axial fan. Developed in association with its distributor Maxim, the fan is designed for ventilating and removing fumes as well as toxic and explosive gasses from tanks and cooling equipment. It is also approved by Germanischer Lloyd ...
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?and for Daewoo
Much larger tonnage has been ordered from Daewoo in Korea in the form of a quintet of post-panamax ships for Gebab of Dusseldorf in Germany. The order could be of considerable value to the Korean yard because it also includes an option for five more ships of the same type.Daewoo ...
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New crankshaft for
F A Vinnen & Co?s 29,181g, 2,480 TEU container vessel Merkur Star is under repair at MAN B&W Service Center Hamburg, where a new crankshaft is being fitted.The ship, which is powered by a MAN B&W 6S70MC diesel, developed engine trouble in the Atlantic north-west of the Azores. A cracked ...
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Shipowners set steady course
Japanese shipowners are finding the strong yen is preventing them gaining from the recovery in trade.Figures just released from the Japanese Ministry of Transport do not paint too glowing a picture of the country?s shipping activities. Having hit 100 million deadweight in 1997, by mid-1988 the Japanese fleet had lost ...
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Satellite mobile phone service on countdown
Following a period of financial uncertainty, ICO Global Communications is back on track and poised to launch the first of its 12 satellites.ICO Global Communications, the UK company set up in 1995 to develop a global mobile satellite communications system (previously known as Inmarsat P), has been bailed out of ...
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Sealift conversion contract
San Diego?s National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) has received $2 million for the first phase of a $25 million contract to convert a US Navy Strategic Sealift Program vessel USNS Soderman.The ship is being converted to meet the readiness capabilities of the US Marine Corps, and will arrive at ...
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Container ship orders for Gydnia?
Poland?s shipbuilding industry, which has tended to specialise in building smaller container ships in recent years, received an order boost in January in the form of a glut of contracts for Gydnia Shipyard.Among the orders is a pair of 2,078 TEU vessels for Rederei Herm Dauelsberg in Germany. These newbuildings ...
